Mental Health Awareness Explained: From Ancient Treatments to Psychedelic Therapy | Funny Medicine Podcast Ep. 96

Mental health has been confusing humans since the first cave-person wondered why they felt weird for no obvious reason. In this episode we trek from ancient trepanation to tomorrow’s psychedelic-assisted therapy and AI mood-bots—with plenty of sarcasm, fun facts, and zero shame. We unpack the biology, psychology, and “life keeps lif-ing” environmental triggers behind mental illness, trash some stubborn myths, and swap personal stories (because our ADHD needs to make an appearance in each episode... iykyk).

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00:00 Welcome to Funny Medicine ☕️

00:53 Mental health, plain English edition

03:35 History’s questionable “cures” (leeches, anyone?)

12:12 How common is mental illness—really

16:08 Our unfiltered experiences

21:12 Mental health vs. mental illness (labels matter)

33:32 Root causes (biology, psychology, environment)

36:05 Hormones behaving badly

36:46 Chronic stress hits different

37:13 Grief, loss & the feels

38:11 Violence, war & PTSD

38:38 Isolation—thanks, modern life

40:31 Substance use tango

45:51 Symptom cheat-sheet

53:44 Why stigma still sucks

59:06 Brain-body gossip

01:03:01 Prevention hacks you can actually try

01:07:18 The future: psychedelics, AI, and beyond

01:11:32 Final thoughts & coffee refills

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